The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #58318   Message #923173
Posted By: Steve Parkes
01-Apr-03 - 02:22 AM
Thread Name: Any students of Latin here?
Subject: RE: Any students of Latin here?
"Sacrifice" = "make sacred", from Latin. Pagan sacrifice often involved burning the sacrificial object; the earthly part, the ash, remains behind, while the smoke rises upwards, taking the object's essence to where the god is: whence immolate.

"Passum": can't remember! But Padre gives it as "[truly] having suffered [sacrifice]".